Curing Illnesses with Mummy Powder
Here we have another mummy story and people using the dead as a way of healing themselves. Early day Arabs had the perception that if they used “mummia,” a word formed from “mūmiyā,” which defines the resin from the embalmed bodies of dead Egyptians, they would be healed of all kinds of diseases and sicknesses. It was known to cure bruises, cuts, and broken bones.
Curing Illnesses With Mummy Powder
They went as far as to ingest the powder with hopes it would cure tuberculosis and belly ulcers. History has it that Europeans used it as well, and at one point, it was a high-demand commodity, so people went all over the world in search of mummia. History has a link of the powder to “mumiya black pissasphalt” in Persia, which was used to cure injuries and fractures.
